US Green Card Lottery DV 2005 Results Announced

The winners of the United States DV-2005 diversity lottery have already been notified by the Kentucky Consular Center. Approximately 100,000 people from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States have won the DV 2005 lottery and can now lodge an immigrant visa application. The U.S. Department of State estimates that about half the number of these winners will not pursue their cases and therefore the quota of 50,000 immigrant visas will be filled for fiscal year 2005.

There were over 9.5 million valid entries received for the DV-2005 lottery between 1 November 2003 to 30 December 2003. Winners were selected at random spread out among six geographic regions, not to exceed seven percent of the native-born population. In order for DV lottery winners to gain an immigrant "green card" visa to the US, they must provide evidence of a high school degree or show two years of work experience in a job that requires at least two years of training or experience. Winners must successfully obtain their immigrant visas to the US by 30 September 2005 or they will lose their DV status and would have to apply again for next year's lottery.

Only winners of the DV 2005 programme have been notified - those who received no notification were not selected, but may apply for next year's DV programme. The details of this will be announced later this month.

Please see below the number of DV-2005 winners by each country according to geographic region:

Africa

Algeria:

1,489

Angola:

14

Benin:

233

Botswana:

7

Burkina Faso:

76

Burundi:

34

Cameroon:

1,540

Cape Verde:

6

Central African Republic:

4

Chad:

22

Comoros:

3

Congo:

47

DR Congo:

844

Cote d'Ivoire:

321

Djibouti:

12

Egypt:

6,070

Equatorial Guinea:

2

Eritrea:

556

Ethiopia:

6,060

Gabon:

29

Gambia:

136

Ghana:

3,974

Guinea:

268

Guinea-Bissau:

3

Kenya:

3,618

Lesotho:

0

Liberia:

714

Libya:

35

Madagascar:

28

Malawi:

44

Mali:

124

Mauritius:

23

Morocco:

5,298

Mozambique:

12

Namibia:

11

Niger:

53

Nigeria:

6,725

Rwanda:

51

Sao Tome and Principe:

0

Senegal:

409

Seychelles:

4

Sierra Leone:

594

Somalia:

594

Somalia:

364

South Africa:

390

Sudan:

1,015

Swaziland:

6

Tanzania:

356

Togo:

2,857

Tunisia:

134

Uganda:

244

Zambia:

118

Zimbabwe:

141

Asia

Afghanistan:

22

Bahrain:

1

Bangladesh:

7,404

Bhutan:

1

Brunei:

1

Burma:

531

Cambodia:

164

HKSAR:

77

Indonesia:

258

Iran:

820

Iraq:

48

Israel:

116

Japan:

373

Jordan:

44

North Korea:

1

Kuwait:

16

Laos:

4

Lebanon:

83

Malaysia:

87

Maldives:

0

Mongolia:

55

Nepal:

2,698

Oman:

0

Qatar:

1

Saudi Arabia:

30

Singapore:

35

Sri Lanka:

386

Syria:

26

Thailand:

102

Taiwan:

367

UAE:

13

Yemen:

40

Europe

Albania:

3,380

Andorra:

1

Armenia:

1,004

Austria:

91

Azerbaijan:

235

Belarus:

925

Belgium:

81

Bosnia & Herzegovina:

103

Bulgaria:

4,068

Croatia:

69

Cyprus:

14

Czech Republic:

169

Denmark:

42

Estonia:

64

Finland:

59

France:

384

French Southern & Antarctic Lands:

1

Martinique:

2

New Caledonia:

1

Reunion:

3

Georgia:

375

Germany:

1,275

Greece:

78

Hungary:

181

Iceland:

5

Ireland:

205

Italy:

202

Kazakhstan:

296

Kyrgyzstan:

206

Latvia:

158

Liechtenstein:

1

Lithuania:

1,114

Luxembourg:

2

FYROM:

306

Malta:

0

Moldova:

383

Monaco:

0

Netherlands:

130

Netherlands Antilles:

10

Aruba:

2

No. Ireland:

75

Norway:

25

Poland:

6,211

Portugal:

51

Macau:

12

Romania:

2,521

San Marino:

0

Serbia & Montenegro:

425

Slovakia:

398

Slovakia:

398

Slovenia:

6

Spain:

134

Sweden:

115

Switzerland:

136

Tajikistan:

83

Turkey:

1,803

Turkmenistan:

78

Ukraine:

5,361

Uzbekistan:

1,551

Vatican City:

0

North America

The Bahamas:

14

Oceania

Australia:

787

Cocos Islands:

2

Fiji:

530

Kiribati:

0

Marshall Islands:

0

Micronesia:

0

Nauru:

0

New Zealand:

290

Cook Islands:

0

Niue:

1

Palau:

2

Papua New Guinea:

5

Samoa:

6

Solomon Islands:

1

Tonga:

96

Tuvalu:

0

Vanuatu:

0

South & Central America, The Carribbean

Antigua & Barbuda:

4

Argentina:

221

Barbados:

12

Belize:

3

Bolivia:

108

Brazil:

592

Chile:

43

Costa Rica:

24

Cuba:

674

Dominica:

8

Ecuador:

308

Grenada:

7

Guatemala:

25

Guyana:

27

Honduras:

35

Nicaragua:

14

Panama:

17

Paraguay:

14

Peru:

2,514

St Kitts & Nevis:

3

St. Lucia:

4

St. Vincent & the Grenadines:

14

Suriname:

3

Trinidad & Tobago:

96

Uruguay:

18

Venezuela:

299

People born in the following countries were not eligible to participate in the DV-2005 programme: Canada, China (excluding HKSAR and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Phillippines, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.